Boston 9, NY Yankees 7
When: 8:05 PM ET, Sunday, April 4, 2010
Where: Fenway Park, Boston, Massachusetts
Temperature:
67°
Umpires:
Home -
Joe West, 1B -
Angel Hernandez, 2B -
Paul Schrieber, 3B -
Rob Drake
Attendance:
37440
By SportsDirect Inc.
The Red Sox defeated the Yankees 9-7 Sunday night in the Major League season opener at Fenway Park in Boston.
The wild game began positively for the Yankees. Jorge Posada and Curtis Granderson hit back-to-back home runs in the second inning to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead.
The Yankees led 5-1 after four innings, but Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia began to stumble in the bottom of the fifth. An RBI single by Marco Scutaro cut the Yankees lead to 5-2. Then in the sixth, Kevin Youkilis tripled to right to score Dustin Pedroia and Victor Martinez and cut the Yankees lead to 5-4.
David Robertson relieved Sabathia and allowed an RBI single to Beltre, which tied the game at 5-5 in the sixth.
The Yankees broke the tie in the top of the seventh on a Robinson Cano ground out, and made it 7-5 on Posada (3-4, 2 RBIs) RBI single.
But the Red Sox tied it again on a two-run home run by Pedroia (2-4, 3 RBIs) off Chan Ho Park in the bottom of the seventh, and they took their first lead, 8-7, on a passed ball that allowed Youkilis (3-4, 2 RBIs) to score.
The Red Sox added a run in the eighth of Joba Chamberlain. Park (0-1) took the loss. Hideki Okajima (1-0) got the win in relief of Josh Beckett and Jonathan Papelbon got the save (1).
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| NY Yankees |
|
Boston |
|
CC Sabathia
|
Player |
Josh Beckett
|
|
No Decision |
W/L |
No Decision |
|
5.1 |
IP |
4.2 |
|
4 |
Strikeouts |
1 |
|
6 |
Hits |
8 |
|
8.44 |
ERA |
9.64 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| NY Yankees
|
12 |
2 |
20 |
.324 |
15 |
2 |
6 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
| Boston
|
12 |
1 |
20 |
.353 |
13 |
5 |
8 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
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